The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-28
AFRAID TO rRoBE TOO DEEPLY,

form.
AFRAID TO rRoBE TOO DEEPLY.
A majority Of the royal commission,
whose labors have 80 recently closed, alb.
solutely Refused to investigate Free Trade.
They took the ground thst inquiry was
pernicious and allowed themselves to be-
come the slaves Of doctrine. Most truly
did their zeal for tho dogma outweigh
alike consideration for its truth and con-
Germ for its effects. So they simply let it
alone.
Not so with the minority. They have
not only boldly raised their voices against
the fetch OF Free Trade, bat they have
denounced in no unheBitsting terms the
course OF the majority. First, in order to
show the utter lack Of unenimity, will
call attention to the following facts. There
were in all twenty-five commissioners, and
OF this number only seven signed the re-
port without reservation and remark.
This is = startling facs. OF the other
members, who we're induced to sign the
report ONLY alter seventeen folio pages OF
explanations, We find Commissioners
Booth, Cohen, Cory, Gibbs, Jameson,
Palgsave, Honldsworth, Palmer, Price and
Storey. Five of these gentlemen do.
| clare the majority report "too optim-
ist;" thit lc M1MainIzNs the depres.
sion wheS the evile&te submitted to
Is PROOF to exls. il Amos. every
brancn OF the trade and induBtry OF the
country" thst ''in estimating the condi-
ton OF the country too much stress has
been laid Oh the volume OF our foreign
srsde and too little on the Improbable
conditions under which large proportion
OF it is conducted" Another commits.
siorer points out thst Mr.. Giffsn's figures
have been serioualy mieconssrued, and in
Inmates that the majority are slaves to
Free Trade;a third thinks different and
! less favorable conclua!oua could DO con-
sistently arrived at than those actually
drawn by the minority" while yet another
| declares that the minority report more
accurately describes the extent and the
vseerity Of the depression in trade and in.
dustry, and tho consequent insufliciency
OF employment for labor, than does the
report Of the msjority OF the comma.
aioners."
CoERCED TO FlGS.
In ppite Of oil these differences, in npite
| Of the admitted fact that the majority
have GCctorcd the tgure5 to suit them.
selves, Gud in spite Of the iGct tia. they
have misrepresented the real state OF sf.
falra, the ten men with reservations"
have been cneIced into signing report
which E,any Of ,h.m do not believe in.
In hric!, ! tiui that OF the twenty-five
royal commissioners only seven signed
the dishonest so-called majority report
wi,Aou. !eaesvA;ion. Five ui tho othe,s
5oialy 5aid they did not believe in wha.
they signed, but Bigaed it. Another ex.
posed tho fraudulent figures connected BY
tho Frce.traders, but p;Sned it; another
declared his colleagues elaven TO tho dog.
ma Of FREQ Trade, tnnush the facts and
HGutes wero the other way, bnt signed it.
| anG another announced his belief in the
minority report, but Tor some uaRccount.
Sb!e reason signed the report OF the ma.
ljo.ity. Hers We have eight out OF the
eleven ohjectoTB; the ohjsctiono OF the
other three were Of Il minor character.
| Instead, therefore. Of a nearly unani.
mous report in favor OF Free Trade, AZ the
Advocates Of this policy in the United
States have been contenhing, VIC have q
cu!-and' dried sepor: actually signed by
seven out of the twenty-five commission
ers, generally denounced 40 misleading
aud inaccurate, bu! nevertheless signed by
eisht actual commissioners, and signed
with cerlsi: .can,vationD by three othe.s,
tmakiug q total Of eighteen signatures. Any
ono who knowa anything about political
liio in England will understand the mean
ing OF the asterisk and iootnoto attached
to eleven out Of the eighteen names. This
should no tire inscription: